THE PICTURE HOUSES

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14840, 18 February 1919, Page 3

THE PICTURE HOUSES

EVERYBODY'S. The stiTring dramatic play, "Babbling Tongues," showing the tragic effects of scandal m wrecking happy homes, will be shown for the last time to-night, as well as the Gazette, which contains fine views of Lieut.-Col. Sykes, the famous airman, whose, death is announced today. "Who Killed Walton?"— The Triangle drama, "Who Killed Walton." showing at Everybody's change of programme tomorrow, is a mystery story of very high quality. J. Barney Sherry has the star part, and Mary Mersch plays opposite to him. Sherry is a prominent politician ancl Mary a popular novelist. He is m love with her, but is already engaged to another man, and feels that she is bound by her promise to him. A famous but dissolute artist Is to illustrate her book and for the purpose of rtiscussing it she goes to dinner with him. He makes advances to her which r«ho resents. She leaves him m anger and sets out for home, but two hours later she awakens from a faint and Inds herself locked m the artist's apartments, and the artist sitting m a chair lead. Her fiancee believes her guilty of the murder, but the politician is convinced otherwise, and sets out to discover the truth. The solution is entirely unexpected and happiness comes to two , loving hearts. It is a finely produced story and the photography is remarkably well done. "The Fatal Ring," the sensational Pathe serial, will be advanced another chapter, when episode six, entitled "The Rays of Death," will bn screened. This episode Is as thrillIng as any of its predecessors. HIS MAJESTY'S THEATRE Again last evening His Majesty's Theatre was packed with patrons to witness "Joan the Woman," with Geraldine Farrar as the immortal Joan of Arc. Tonight will be the final screening of this historical super-feature. Commencing to-morrow, a William Pox wonder photo-play, entitled, "Jack and the Beanstalk," will be presented. This feature is acted by 1300 children, with an Bft 6in giant. Everybody knows the story which has been handed down from the earliest English peoples as a heritage of joy to the present d.ay. "Jack and the Beanstalk," which has delighted the hearts of children all over the world, has now been caught before the all-see-mg 1 eyes of the camera, caged and made ready to present to the world m a tangible, visible form. The master mind of William Fox now presents the Fox kiddie wonder picture. Jack, as all know, sold his mother's^ cow for a sack of beans. She was angry with him, and she threw the seeds out of the window. Next morning she found that they had sprouted. An enormous beanstalk reached from the ground to the sky. Jack, filled with the spirit of adventure, climbed it and landed m a country above the clouds where dwelt an awful giant and a beautiful princess. After many adventures, Jack killed the giant, married the princess, and all lived happily ever afterward. « THE PALAOB. •

To-night will witness the final screenIng at the Palace of the wonderful Russian actress, Nazimova, m the sensational Metro drama, "Revelation." Splendid attendances have greeted this renowned artist each evening, and tonight should again see a representative gathering of picture enthusiasts.

Mary McAlister to-morrow.— What 1s described as an "altogether different" manner of photo-play of a delightful Kind will be unfolded, for the first time, to-morrow. The press of Auckland writes m glowing terms of the flraraa, "Pants," and gives unstinted praise to the fascinating child actress, little Mary McAlister, whose impersonation of a delicious tot of a girl born In the lap of luxury and confined; m a gilded cage lost association with average youngsters should contaminate h«r, is described as an artistic portrayal that wins the warm approval of young and old. Betty (Mary McAlister), the child of fortune, breaks bounds to revel on the seashore with other kiddies of her own age, and has the time of her life. To escape detection, she exchanges clothes with a boy, and masquerades m "pants"— -hence the title of the play. Time flies, night approaches, and Betty fails to arrive home. A police search is Instituted, but without avail. Meanwhile the father of the boy owner of the "pants," driven to desperation by hunger, feloniously enters Ithe house, of Betty's father just about the time that the police arrive with the boy who has been mistaken for Betty. The events that follow up to a happy climax would, if told here, spoil the interest m a very pretty denouement.